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Exclusive: Tighter bailout controls to deal with NHS 'cashflow crisis' revealed
Requests for short-term revenue support will be subject to “increased challenge and scrutiny” Trusts’ reliance on bailout support has grown in recent years as expenditure has increased faster than income Providers seeking support will need to detail if “suppliers are threatening to put trust’s account on stop” NHS ...
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Analysis: Half of hospital trusts miss reduced waiting targets
Trusts missing largely lower “reset” targets for elective treatment times Performance means organisations could miss out on sustainability and transformation funding Total waiting list approaches 4 million More than half of England’s hospital trusts have missed their elective waiting time targets set by NHS Improvement.
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Trusts form new 'group model' to cut costs
Three mental health trusts to form partnership to improve care pathways and make back office savings South London London and Maudsley, Oxleas, and South West London and St George’s Mental Health trusts are already working together Three trust chief executives have said their new partnership will not create ...
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King's Fund chief says STPs are not 'secret plans'
King’s Fund chief executive Chris Ham has written to the health secretary stating that sustainability and transformation plans “offer an important opportunity to improve health and care services”, and that there was no ”concerted effort to keep the plans secret”.
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NHS Digital chief to retire
NHS Digital chief executive Andy Williams has announced he will retire in March next year.
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Major teaching hospital has 100 patients waiting more than a year
A London teaching hospital has more than 100 patients waiting over a year for treatment.
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Five CCGs confirm shared leader by April
Five clinical commissioning groups in London intend to have a single accountable officer by April 2017.
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Exclusive: New NHS 'bond' could unlock capital funds, says Jim Mackey
NHS Improvement in early discussions about creating an “NHSI bond” to help accelerate capital investment Department of Health’s capital budget has been frozen in cash terms over the course of this parliament, which equates to a real terms cut Jim Mackey says some of the NHS estate is in ...
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Regulator looking at buyouts of 'ridiculous' PFI schemes
Jim Mackey says borrowing levels and profit margins within some PFI schemes are “absolutely ridiculous” Where buyouts are not possible, trusts are urged to manage their contracts more “robustly” Treasury unlikely to support a “blanket buyout” NHS regulators have established a working group that is looking at the ...
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London NHS organisations call for 'whole system' regulation
STP requests national bodies regulate accountable care organisations as a “single system” rather than on an individual organisation basis North East London plan outlines capital investment needs of £500m-£600m and asks for central support to cover “above normal” PFI costs Footprint to set up GP practices with diagnostic capability, ...
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A&E could be downgraded to 'urgent care centre-plus'
United Lincolnshire chief executive says trust wants to reopen unit 24/7 but suggested it could lose services One option is for Grantham to become an “urgent care centre-plus” Trust announced “temporary” night time A&E closure was being extended until “at least” February The chief executive of the trust ...
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'Termination payment' to former deputy ombudsman revealed
Deputy ombudsman Mick Martin received a larger payment than previously disclosed He also received more than £10,000 of “benefits in kind” in 2015-16 PHSO says it “should have been clearer” in its original responses to HSJ The Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman made a “termination payment” of £93,834 ...
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MPs: Services 'likely to suffer' after UnitingCare contract collapse
Services “likely to suffer” in wake of £750m contract breakdown, say MPs “Incompetent, grossly irresponsible” NHS bodies showed business acumen which would “embarrass a child in a sweet shop” NHS England told to address commercial skills gap in NHS after “catalogue of failures” Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Clinical Commissioning ...
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National nurse leaders defend plans for new support role
Senior nurses in England sign letter defending plans for nursing associate role Letter confirms nursing associates will take on tasks currently performed by nurses New research says substituting nurses for non-nurses increases mortality risk The most senior nurses in England have defended plans for the new nursing associate ...
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Daily Insight: Government won't budge on NHS spending claims
HSJ’s round-up of the day’s must read stories
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Chancellor defends government's £10bn NHS spending claim
Health committee chair called on ministers to stop using “incorrect” £10bn figure to describe additional NHS spending Chancellor says the claim always referred “specifically” to the NHS, rather than the DH Department of Health budget is increasing by £4.5bn in real terms over five years The chancellor has ...
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Trust makes long awaited chief executive appointment
Papworth Hospital Foundation Trust has appointed East and North Hertfordshire Trust deputy chief executive Stephen Posey as its new chief executive.
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Exclusive: Chief nurse 'will intervene to back nursing directors on staffing levels'
NHS Improvement says safe staffing guidance will be evidence based Ruth May says she will intervene to support directors of nursing in decisions Work follows the suspension of safe nurse staffing work by NICE in 2015 NHS Improvement’s chief nurse will intervene to back nursing directors where they ...
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NHS Improvement still considering how to count nursing associates
NHS Improvement yet to decide whether nurse associates will be counted as registered nurses in Carter care hours metric New drive on pressure ulcers will see top performances paired with worst NHS Improvement has not yet decided how to count nursing associates as part of a proposed high-profile ...